"I don't necessarily love the process. It's not a creative process dressing actresses for the Oscars," the designer, who typically dresses just one star per event, admits.

"When you're dressing an actress, or even sometimes someone getting married, you're working with them and fulfilling their dream, their agent's dream, their husband's dream," he continued.

"They have a preconceived notion of what they want to wear, what they want to look like, how they're marketing this film and you're kind of really just making something for them that's not particularly important."